₦airaland Forum

Zocalite:
The truth has no ethnic, political or nepotic colouration

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery

franchasng:
God please give Yoruba land more crude oil in their core Yoruba states so that they can become confident enough to fully support the peaceful division of Nigeria because it is their insatiable craven for free crude oil wealth in Niger Delta that have made them so scared and jittery of pursuing their Odudua Nation where they can build their own Yoruba nation as they desire

Afobaba33:
YOU ARE SO IGNORANT

Biodun556:
Benin republic nearly hijack the place from Nigeria

Sofistcatdmoron:
Naija delta will not like this

porthouse7:
Nigeria actually hijacked it from benin Republic, even Badagry is part of Benin Republic, what does togenji mean in Yoruba?

Biodun556:
White men partition African continent. What was given to us is what we claim till today.

The people of tokengi island wrote a letter to president Olusegun Obasanjo and pledge allegiance to Nigeria. They rejected Benin republic offer.

So the island is Nigerian territory by all standards

TimeManager:
The Senator representing the Ogun West senatorial district, Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, has hinted that Ogun State will soon join oil-producing states in Nigeria as drilling of crude oil will commence soon at Tongeji Island, located in the Ipokia Local Government Area of the state.

Adeola, while speaking in Ota at the 2nd Edition of the Town Hall Meeting/Mega Empowerment and Thank You Tour of Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area,

said modalities are being put in place to commence drilling of crude oil at the island on the fringe of the border between Nigeria and the Republic of Benin.

He attributed the feat to the economic reforms by the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led administration and the investor-friendly Ogun State Government of Governor Dapo Abiodun.

He commended the president for taking the bull by the horns and giving the country’s economy a new direction and praised Abiodun for espousing the infrastructural and socioeconomic development of Ogun State.

He noted that Tinubu has attracted more Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into Nigeria within two years in office, and Abiodun has transformed Ogun into the best investor destination of choice.

The senator added that when the drilling activities commence in the oil-rich Tongeji Island, Ogun State will witness astronomical economic growth and prosperity while Nigeria’s crude oil production will soar.

Adeola commended the Ogun State governor for completing the agro-cargo airport, which has attracted other mega projects from the private sector, establishing a dry sea port, and delivering other infrastructural projects across the state.

Adeola declared that the governor will be remembered as the best in terms of the delivery of infrastructural and socioeconomic development.

On the empowerment programme, Adeola explained that he decided to decentralise the programme to empower more constituents in the senatorial district.

In another development, the senator declared that the nation’s affairs, particularly the economy, are no longer in the hands of the cabal.

He stated that various reforms introduced by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on his assumption of office have rendered members of the cabal who held the country’s economy by the jugular impotent, stressing that Nigeria is now on the path of economic recovery.

Adeola defended the tax reform policy of the incumbent administration in Nigeria, noting that it is to salvage Nigeria’s economy from the members of the cabal.

Adeola added that the tax reform policy supported by the majority of members of the National Assembly has brought holistic change and liberation to the country’s economy.
https://guardian.ng/energy/nigeria-to-begin-drilling-crude-oil-in-tongeji-island-senator/

porthouse7:
Nigeria actually hijacked it from benin Republic, even Badagry is part of Benin Republic, what does togenji mean in Yoruba?

Afobaba33:
the oil and gas had been sighted by different gov dispensations starting from Osoba, Daniel, Amosun, and now the most useless gov
the gas is actually a reserve for the western state in the future but unfortunately this Senator don expose the secret

I wonder what the western state will fall back on

Konquest:
@Porthouse7

You're historically incorrect. Did you know that Ajase (Porto Novo) a pure Yoruba city was ORIGINALLY part of the larger Yorubaland in Nigeria in the 1890s before it was excised and merged with Dahomey (now Benin Republic)?

Tongeji is in reality a Yoruba-speaking community which just less than 5 minutes from Porto Novo (or originally called by its Yoruba name called Ajase ) in Benin Republic.

Tongeji is likely a dialectic variant of the Yoruba language BUT then again, I watched a subtitled documentary done by the iconic movie veteran Tunji Kelani (TK) who interviewed to Oba of Ajase (Porto Novo) in Benin Republic who spoke about the Yoruba foundational origins of Porto Novo from Iseyin in Oyo, Nigeria centuries back. He ALSO CLEARLY stated in the documentary which is still online that the Ogus (formerly called Eguns) were allowed to settle among the Yorubas of Ajase because the Ajase folks and Ogus are ancestrally related to one another. The Oba said so further affirming that Ogus and Yorubas are direct blood relatives.

Since Tongeji is just less than 5 minutes from Porto Novo a Yoruba-speaking city in Benin Republic, it's likely that the Ogus who the Yorubas of Ajase (Porto Novo) allowed to stay with them straddle both sides of Tongeji and Porto Novo as well.

porthouse7:
all this but no certainty, whats togenji in yoruba my friend

Konquest:
That name seems to be a tongue twister for you. It's spelled TONGEJI NOT "Togenji."


The Website right BELOW provides some deep insights into the history of the people of TONGEJI Island.

=>https://encyclopedia.litcaf.com/environment/environment-others/tongeji/

History & people
Tongeji has an interesting history which has helped fuelled the many claims about it. The ancestors came from Ilesha in Osun state and settled in Owode-Apa as hunters. Then they heard of the fabulous Island of Tongeji with plenty of games, as adventurers they came and settled there, selling their catch to the people of Badagry. Soon the forest became a hamlet, the hamlet a village and the village a small town. But the enduring question in Tongeji is that of identity and geography played no small part in it. For many years there were speculations about the ownership and citizenship of the people of the island. There were talks of a possible takeover by the government of Benin Republic which eyed the island because of a reported discovery of crude oil. Tongeji is part of Ogun State, even though it is nearer to the Benin Republic than Nigeria. The people speak Egun and Yoruba. Their fathers married from the French speakers, and the Nigerians but the people are generally considered Nigerians. Of the original population, only a few hundred people remained.

Hope that partly helps.

porthouse7:
i am a yoruba in and out, i defend my tribe in all social platforms, togenji is not a yoruba word, we might calm the land but not indigenous ours